Hahnöfersand Skull Reclassified as Modern Human, Debunking Hybrid Narrative
A 7,500-year-old skull from Hahnöfersand, once thought to be a Neanderthal–modern human hybrid, has been reclassified as fully consistent with Homo sapiens and dated to the Mesolithic. New morphometric analysis shows no intermediate traits, overturning decades of hybrid interpretation and reshaping understanding of post‑Ice Age human variation in Europe.